Amend CSSB 8 in ARTICLE 2 of the bill, in PART C, by adding 

the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the 

subsequent SECTIONS of PART C, ARTICLE 2, appropriately:

	SECTION 2C.___.  Effective August 1, 2006, Section 25.081, 

Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

	Sec. 25.081.  OPERATION OF SCHOOLS.  (a)  Except as 

authorized under Subsection (b) of this section, Section 25.084, or 

Section 29.0821, for each school year each school district must 

operate so that the district provides for not more than [at least] 

180 days and not fewer than 1,260 hours of instruction for students.



	(b)  The commissioner may approve the instruction of 

students for fewer than the number of hours [days] required under 

Subsection (a) if disaster, flood, extreme weather conditions, fuel 

curtailment, or another calamity causes the closing of schools.